Diana Saldana

Former prosecutor Marina Garcia Marmolej was confirmed by the Senate on Monday to be a federal judge in the U.S. Southern Judicial District of Texas, filling a second border judicial vacancy in Laredo.

Texas Democrats in Congress recommended Marmolejo to the White House on May 13, 2009, said the chairman of that delegation, Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin. Doggett, chair of the Texas Democratic congressional delegation, said Marmolejo’s confirmation 2 1/2 years after she was recommended for the vacancy was “overdue.”